Promoting the Fraternity across the World
Saturday 8th February saw Worshipful Master Robert Phillips and his wife host a wonderful Pre-Valentines Ball at The Left Bank in Headingley, Leeds, romantically decorated by Balloonatix of Leeds.
Grove Road Community Primary School – which has limited outdoor space and no field or garden – has been awarded £3,000 to buy outdoor playground with furniture, walled mounted games and an outdoor table tennis table.
Sheffield Touch of Colour Stroke Group is a Stroke Association voluntary group. The group meets each month to explore different artistic techniques, and help members overcome the devastating effects of stroke. Originally an art course run by the Stroke Association, the art group became Sheffield Touch of Colour in April 2018, run by the charity’s volunteers in the area.
The school has been awarded £1,000 to buy new sports kits, which will be used for PE and extra-curricular team activities.
One of those to benefit from the charity’s services is Ivanhoe Lodge member John Bulliman, whose life was saved three years ago by the delivery of an emergency unit of blood from his original bone marrow donor in the Midlands, to the Royal Hallamshire Hospital, where he was being treated for leukaemia and sepsis.
The grant comes through the Masonic Charitable Foundation (MCF) and will be used for running costs to help the hospice continue its care. This is just one of 237 grants to hospices around the country from Freemasons. In total £600,000 will be donated to hospices all over England and Wales this year
A total of 19 organisations, from North, West and South Yorkshire have received donations ranging from £500 and £5,000 via the Province of Yorkshire West Riding’s Provincial Grand Master’s (PGM) Fund.
Generous donation from Freemasons to support work of dementia friends in Keighley
Harrogate school and youth band share slice of £27K Masonic Autumn Windfall
